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Trust me I am not trying to debate just to debate, just want to be clear in what I am saying. There's people that trade larger accounts and make a living, that if you gave them a smaller account they would have an incredible tough time being profitable at all.

No there's no disputing this, If you have true edge and can profit on 1 contract you can on 50. What I am saying the opposite isn't true, people saying if you can profit on 50 contracts, than you can profit on 1, that's what I am debating.

I agree with no skill = possibly the same outcome. But I am not sure about if can't make it on a smaller account won't make it on a bigger one. Yes, there are different lifestyles, but most people have relatively the same basic cost of living. So someone trying to generate a livable income...

Very nice. I understand if you can't answer and also understand I am speaking in relative terms here. But did you find this out prior to having money? or did you already have money, than found this out? Not that it particularly matters, I've just noticed a lot of the best traders had money...

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Ok, yes I totally agree with that. Depending on market pattern or strength however you define it, certain setups are much more efficient to take than others and sometimes best to 100% avoid a long or short in certain scenarios. 100% agree

Well, sometimes I am dumb and don't understand things. But it seems like we're all agreeing here? Or maybe I am the one making contradicting statements by accident. But this is what I am saying the signals(in my experience are very similar) IE bull and bear setups are the same. That...

Yeah I kind of agree with this. Long setups working well(obviously). But I have same issue, don't have the balls, ignorance, skill or whatever someone considers it to go heavily long, can't risk being stopped out or some odd event happening.

It's like saying " Well no, your statement is dumb, I have a buddy who buys a "X" moving average everyday and looks for certain profit". There's nothing wrong with that at all, it can be very valid, but that's relying on market bullish bias(which again nothing wrong with that). His...

I can agree with this, but I mean if your strategy heavily relies on markets being bullish, there's nothing wrong with that and in fact been smart lately and working well. But if we're going by actual signals, like using probability or mathematical calculation to make your trades, in my...

There's not an extreme difference not in my experience but markets are naturally bullish bias. So, unless market is extremely bearish, longs will typically be easier and pay more than shorts, speaking particularly regarding equities here. I'll just list some of the reasons why I feel this way...

na, everything i do is manual. all the successful traders I know currently only manually trade, but some of them do code and have the ability to do automated back testing or automate there strategies, but they haven't yet.

Let's put it this way, if we find a strategy that good and trading so large that bigger people want to take advantage of us, it's safe to say we probably already made it.... and have fair amount of money.... lol

well I am by far an expert, so anyone with more expertise will hopefully correct me. But no, not that small. It wouldn't make sense for them to go out of there just to get your 2-3 lots, I mean doesn't mean you wont get stopped out just due to the normal fray of the market ofc, but it wouldn't...

The reason whatever they found stops working is because people and other firms are picking up on what they are doing(due to these guys likely trading fairly large size). So, as soon as it's discovered bigger players will actually trade against it, effectively turning their winning strategy into...

Yeah for majority of people, can certainly agree here.

it seems your argument is more you don't believe it's plausible to have an extreme edge in trading or pick up on repeatable patterns in the market. Because with this it's only a matter of time turning $5k into millions, with how much time depending on how strong your edge is. I have to...

Well oddly on this one I am kind of torn on who to agree with. at least for the $5000.00 to a million this is totally Unrealistic for a new trader or a trader who all he has is $5000.00. For someone who has an extreme edge and is well funded $5000.00 to a million is relatively...

Not asking you particularly to answer that, I just can't imagine why you wouldn't so I am asking this ahead of time incase someone decides to answer yes so they will tell me why.

If you have one strategy I mean unless it's satisfying all your goals and financial needs and it's been effective for decades, outside of that why and really even than why would you not look for other strategies that may have less drawdown, higher profit factor or even that may allow you to...